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Da poetização do verso traduzido: entre a tradução do poema de Ondjaki «Para Vivenciar Nadas» e a eclosão de sonhos

No âmbito da tradução literária, a tradução de poesia, delicada e intimista, revela uma profunda complexidade. Ao poetizar o poema traduzido, a tradutora vai polindo o verso e cinzela a imagem, colhendo poeticidade dos sonhos (semeados pelo poeta). Serão, assim, focalizados alguns processos de criatividade tradutiva em poesia.

Le musée, forum de citoyenneté, entre opportunisme et utopie

Le musée comme forum de citoyenneté est une proposition qu'il convient de mettre en perspective. Cette posture intellectuelle et cet enjeu social sont couramment manipulés aujourd'hui par les musées y compris les musées de beaux-arts mais plus largement encore par d’autres domaines de la culture. La démocratisation culturelle tant attendue et rarement atteinte resurgirait sous cette forme spontanée et dynamique du forum où chaque citoyen trouverait un lieu d’expression. La participation citoyenne dont on aimerait pouvoir donner une définition et cerner les contours, devient un préalable à tout projet culturel. Le forum comme lieu public de débat n’est pas en reste. D’ailleurs les grands musées de société récemment inaugurés ont enfoui le terme de musée pour ériger la notion de cité (Cité de l’architecture, Cité de l’immigration) qui dans sa définition première n’est pas si loin que ça du forum. Il semblerait qu’en réunissant des activités différentes avec un souci de pluridisciplinarité dans un même lieu, on tende vers cet objectif de forum ou de cité, caractérisés par un souci d’ouverture au plus grand nombre.

El museo como forum de ciudadanía en el mundo

El museo representa un recinto que necesariamente tiene forma, contenido y protagonistas. En cuanto a la forma ésta es tridimensionalmente diversa, es decir, ningún museo es ni puede ser idéntico, pero conceptualmente, según la nueva museología, es la misma. Y es la misma, por la sencilla razón de que todos los espacios museísticos de la nueva museología se derivan de la relación indisoluble que existe entre territorio, patrimonio y comunidad. El museo tiene como objetivos investigar, documentar, explicar, problematizar y sistematizar todo lo relacionado con el patrimonio natural y cultural, -tangible e intangible- que condiciona su existencia. Además, también tiene como objetivos proteger, conservar, restaurar, inventariar, catalogar y proporcionarle seguridad a dicho patrimonio. Pero el museo no sería tal, si no cumpliera con los objetivos de educar, sensibilizar, concienciar, promover, comunicar y difundir el patrimonio que posee, lo estructura y lo define. El museo es un espacio temporal para el estudio y la reflexión, representa un magnífico instrumento educativo que coadyuva en los procesos de organización y acción comunitaria, en ese sentido, el museo es y debe ser un poderoso instrumento de gestión para el desarrollo comunitario.

PGR forum: serving the crop wild relative user community

The Euro-Mediterranean region is an important centre for the diversity of crop wild relatives. Crops, such as oats (Avena sativa), sugar beet (Beta vulgaris), apple (Malus domestica), annual meadow grass (Festuca pratensis), white clover (Trifolium repens), arnica (Arnica montana), asparagus (Asparagus officinalis), lettuce (Lactuca sativa), and sage (Salvia officinalis) etc., all have wild relatives in the region. The European Community funded project, PGR Forum (www.pgrforum.org) is building an online information system to provide access to crop wild relative data to a broad user community; including plant breeders, protected area managers, policy-makers, conservationists, taxonomists and the wider public. The system will include data on uses, geographical distribution, biology, population and habitat information, threats (including IUCN Red List assessments) and conservation actions. This information is vital for the continued sustainable utilisation and conservation of crop wild relatives. Two major databases have been utilised as the backbone to a Euro-Mediterranean crop wild relative catalogue, which forms the core of the information system: Euro+Med PlantBase (www.euromed.org.uk) and Mansfeld’s World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops (http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de). By matching the genera found within the two databases, a preliminary list of crop wild relatives has been produced. Around 20,000 of the 30,000+ species listed in Euro+Med PlantBase can be considered crop wild relatives, i.e. those species found within the same genus as a crop. The list is currently being refined by implementing a priority ranking system based on the degree of relatedness of taxa to the associated crop.

Forum theorizing in the context of professional practice: The case for middle-range theories

This commentary seeks to complement the contribution of the Building Research & Information special issue on 'Developing Theories for the Built Environment' (2008) by highlighting the important role of middle-range theories within the context of professional practice. Middle-range theories provide a form of theorizing that lies between abstract grand theorizing and atheoretical local descriptions. They are also characterized by the way in which they directly engage with the concerns of practitioners. In the context of professional practice, any commitment to theorizing should habitually be combined with an equivalent commitment to empirical research; rarely is it appropriate to neglect one in favour of the other. Any understanding of the role that theory plays in professional practice must further be informed by Schon's seminal ideas on reflective practice. Practitioners are seen to utilize theories as inputs to a process of continuous reflection, thereby guarding against complacency and routinization. The authors would challenge any assumption that academics alone are responsible for generating theories, thereby limiting the role of practitioners to their application. Such a dichotomized view is contrary to established ideas on Mode 2 knowledge production and current trends towards co-production research in the context of the built environment.